GLAAD, the world’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocy anizatn, is releasg the fdgs of the first of an ongog seri of polls to gge and track motivatn, enthiasm, and issu ahead of the 2022 midterm electns takg place November. The poll measur how motivated LGBTQ likely voters are
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AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga? * lgbt election *
That number surpass 2020’s rerd of 336 and 2018’s rerd of least 1, 065 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people ran for office this year, wh 678 of them makg to the general electn, the LGBTQ Victory Instute, the rearch arm of the Victory Fund, reported. This reflects LGBTQ voters more broadly: 84% supported Democrats, while 15% supported Republins, acrdg to an NBC News Ex Poll released Tuday Parker, print and CEO of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, said a statement that the “rabow wave” is a “clear rebe to the creased homophobia and transphobia sweepg our muni. Bec Balt, the wner of an at-large Hoe seat Vermont, is the first woman and the first gay person elected to Congrs om her state, and Eric Sorensen, the wner of Illois’ 17th Congrsnal District, is the first gay person elected to Congrs om his state, acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Garcia, the wner of California’s 42nd Congrsnal District race, will be the first gay immigrant Congrs, while Gee Santos, the wner of New York’s 3rd Congrsnal District race, who went head to head wh another gay ndidate for the seat, is the first non-cumbent gay Republin elected to Congrs and will be the only LGBTQ Republin eher chamber next term.
”Re-electns and lossJared Polis, who 2018 beme the first gay man elected ernor of a U. Sean Patrick Maloney and Mondaire Jon, both of New York, lost their re-electn of Thursday afternoon, there were still two gay and lbian Hoe ndidat whose rac had not yet been lled by NBC News: Will Rolls of California and Jamie McLeod-Skner of Oregon. ” Two-thirds of LGBTQ voters say the rults of the 2020 printial electn have them feelg optimistic about the future; though 77% exprs ncern that the new Supreme Court will overturn marriage equalyIssu Impactg the LGBTQ Vote: COVID-19 rponse, healthre, racial jtice, followed by LGBTQ equalyCOVID-19 Rponse is the Number One Issue for LGBTQ Voters: 36% Face Mental Health Issu after COVID-19New York, NY – GLAAD, the world’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocy anizatn, released the fdgs of s 2020 Post-electn Poll of LGBTQ registered voters, cludg a phenomenal turnout of the LGBTQ vote, a surge of first-time LGBTQ voters, an overwhelmg vote for Print-elect Bin, wh vot motivated by three top issu urgently mandg a more robt rponse om our natn’s lears: COVID-19, healthre and racial jtice.
They also realise that we n more broadly, not jt on LGBT issu, ” the 57-year-old retired mic teacher told the Thomson Rters data on other LGBT+ ndidat is still emergg, other victors clud Rchie Torr and Mondaire Jon, rpectively the first out gay Ao-Lato and Black men elected to Congrs. In fact, he said, he feels great after easily wng electn last week to bee Florida's first LGBTQ state said the electn of so many lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people across the untry this electn cycle “is a direct phback on the hatred and bigotry over the last four years, ” cg the Tmp admistratn’s rhetoric agast immigrants, people of lor and the LGBTQ muny. Even wh one gay cumbent’s Hoe race yet to be lled, LGBTQ reprentatn Congrs will h an all-time high next noncumbent LGBTQ victors, both progrsive Democrats, easily won their rac.
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Mondaire Jon, an attorney, and New York Cy Council member Rchie Torr handily won their rac for New York’s 17th and 15th Congrsnal Districts, rpectively, beg the first openly gay Black ndidat elected to Congrs.